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What is the noun for regicide?

What's the noun for regicide? Here's the word you're looking for.

regicide
  1. The killing of a king.
  2. One who kills a king.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “As Exton offers the usurper, now King Henry IV, the body of the dead king he lays claim to a reward for regicide.”
      “Now, while quoting John Milton and admiring Christopher Wren, he must face up to fire and plague and regicide, to the opium and slave trades.”
      “Similarly, the political realities forced upon a nation suffering the after-effects of civil war and regicide were sobering indeed.”
regicides
  1. plural of regicide
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Those regicides who were already dead, such as John Bradshaw and Oliver Cromwell, had vengeance wreaked on their disinterred corpses.”
      “He played a leading role in the king's trial, and unlike many of the regicides probably had few qualms about signing his death warrant.”
      “The tyrannicides in ancient Greece, the Assassins and the regicides in the Middle Ages were suicide terrorists.”
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